Patents by Inventor Takanobu Watanabe

Takanobu Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11942234
    Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the insulator, and a sheath covering a periphery of the shield layer. The shield layer is configured to include a lateral winding shielding portion with a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the insulator, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a spaced portion where the adjacent metal wires are spaced apart from each other, and the non-joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are not joined with each other with the batch plating portion at the spaced portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Hiromitsu Kuroda, Hideki Nonen
  • Patent number: 11918759
    Abstract: A medical braided tube assembly includes a braided tube including a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer, a braided wire including braided strands and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer provided to cover peripheries of the inner resin layer and the braided wire, and a connector provided at an end portion of the braided tube. The connector includes a tube housing section for accommodating the end portion of the braided tube. The braided tube accommodated in the tube housing section are adhesively fixed by an adhesive. The adhesive is provided to seal an entire periphery of the braided wire at an end face of the braided tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Takanori Komuro
  • Publication number: 20240055153
    Abstract: A multicore cable is provided with a plurality of insulated electric wires, each including a metal conductor wire and an insulating layer covering the metal conductor wire. The plurality of insulated electric wires are twisted together, and each of the plurality of insulated electric wires is plastically stretched in a longitudinal direction at an elongation rate of 0.5% or more and 10.0% or less. A multicore cable assembly is provided with the multicore cable, and a terminal member to which the plurality of insulated electric wires are connected at an end of the multicore cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Atsuro YAGUCHI, Takanobu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11891535
    Abstract: A coating film is provided in a cable, a medical hollow tube, a molded article and a hollow tube. The coating film is formed from a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. A static friction coefficient on a surface of the coating film is 0.5 or less. When the coating film is subjected to a testing such that a long fiber non-woven fabric including cotton linters including an alcohol for disinfection with a length of 50 mm along a wiping direction is brought contiguous to the surface of the coating film at a shearing stress of 2×10?3 MPa to 4×10?3 MPa, followed by wiping off the surface of the coating film at a speed of 80 times/min to 120 times/min and 20,000 repetitions thereof for a wiping direction length of 150 mm, a difference (an absolute value of a difference) between the static friction coefficients of the coating film before and after the testing is not greater than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Naoto Teraki, Takanobu Watanabe, Yuriko Kiyokane
  • Patent number: 11848127
    Abstract: A composite cable is provided with plural wires each having a metal conductor and an insulator, a binder layer that bundles the plural wires together, a shield layer composed of a metal conductor and arranged around the binder layer, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. An outer diameter of the sheath is 2.0 mm or less. An amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the shield layer is 0.4 times or more and 0.7 times or less than an amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the plural wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuro Yaguchi, Kimika Kudo, Takanobu Watanabe, Detian Huang
  • Patent number: 11845881
    Abstract: A cable includes a sheath, and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath, the coating film adhering to the sheath. The coating film is formed from a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. A static friction coefficient on a surface of the coating film is 0.5 or less. When the coating film is subjected to a testing such that a long fiber non-woven fabric including cotton linters including an alcohol for disinfection with a length of 50 mm along a wiping direction is brought contiguous to the surface of the coating film at a shearing stress of 2×10?3 MPa to 4×10?3 MPa, followed by wiping off the surface of the coating film at a speed of 80 times/min to 120 times/min and 20,000 repetitions thereof for a wiping direction length of 150 mm, a difference (an absolute value of a difference) between the static friction coefficients of the coating film before and after the testing is not greater than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Naoto Teraki, Takanobu Watanabe, Yuriko Kiyokane
  • Patent number: 11779193
    Abstract: A coating film is provided in a cable, a medical hollow tube, a molded article and a hollow tube. The coating film is formed from a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. A static friction coefficient on a surface of the coating film is 0.5 or less. When the coating film is subjected to a testing such that a long fiber non-woven fabric including cotton linters including an alcohol for disinfection with a length of 50 mm along a wiping direction is brought contiguous to the surface of the coating film at a shearing stress of 2×10?3 MPa to 4×10?3 MPa, followed by wiping off the surface of the coating film at a speed of 80 times/min to 120 times/min and 20,000 repetitions thereof for a wiping direction length of 150 mm, a difference (an absolute value of a difference) between the static friction coefficients of the coating film before and after the testing is not greater than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Naoto Teraki, Takanobu Watanabe, Yuriko Kiyokane
  • Patent number: 11703157
    Abstract: A braided tube includes a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer made of thermoplastic polyurethane resin, a braided wire including braided strands made of nylon and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer made of thermoplastic polyurethane resin and being provided to cover peripheries of the inner resin layer and the braided wire. A width of a void formed around the strand of the braided wire in a cross section perpendicular to a tube longitudinal direction is 30 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Takanori Komuro
  • Publication number: 20230208126
    Abstract: A boot-attached cable is composed of a cable, and a cable boot secured to an end of the cable by an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes an additive material comprising at least one of an organic substant and an inorganic substance, capable of shielding against ultraviolet light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kazufumi SUENAGA, Seiichi KASHIMURA, Takanobu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11664138
    Abstract: A composite cable includes a signal transmission cable including a pair of signal lines being arranged parallel to each other in a cable longitudinal direction and contacting to each other and a shield layer covering the pair of signal lines together, a pair of power supply lines being arranged contacting to each other and contacting to the shield layer, a collective braided shield covering around a cable core composed of the signal transmission cable and the pair of power supply lines collectively, a sheath covering around the collective braided shield. The collective braided shield is configured closely contacting to the shield layer in accordance with an outer shape of the shield layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Takanori Komuro
  • Patent number: 11655587
    Abstract: A cable includes a sheath, and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath. The coating film adheres to the sheath. The static friction coefficient of a surface of the coating film is smaller than the static friction coefficient of a surface of the sheath. The adhesion strength between the sheath and the coating film is 0.30 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Masashi Arai
  • Patent number: 11631507
    Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an electrically insulating member provided over a periphery of the conductor, a shielding layer composed of served shields formed by helically wrapping a plurality of metal wires around the electrically insulating member, and a sheath provided around the shielding layer. The electrically insulating member includes indentations on portions of its surface to be brought into contact with and mated to the metal wires respectively. The shielding layer includes portions in respective circumferential directions of the plurality of metal wires being brought into contact with the electrically insulating member are mated to the indentations, respectively, on the electrically insulating member, and adjacent ones of the metal wires in a circumferential direction of the shielding layer are in surface contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Hideki Nonen, Masashi Arai, Hiromitsu Kuroda, Ryohei Okada, Tamotsu Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20230108586
    Abstract: A composite cable is provided with plural wires each having a metal conductor and an insulator, a binder layer that bundles the plural wires together, a shield layer composed of a metal conductor and arranged around the binder layer, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. An outer diameter of the sheath is 2.0 mm or less. An amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the shield layer is 0.4 times or more and 0.7 times or less than an amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the plural wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Atsuro YAGUCHI, Kimika KUDO, Takanobu WATANABE, Detian HUANG
  • Publication number: 20230102030
    Abstract: A composite cable is provided with a coaxial wire and an insulated wire. The coaxial wire includes a center conductor, a first insulation covering the center conductor, and plural outer conductors arranged on an outer periphery of the first insulation, and a jacket covering the plural outer conductors. The insulated wire includes a stranded conductor including plural strands twisted together, and a second insulation covering the stranded conductor. The center conductor of the coaxial wire is a single wire. A conductor diameter of the center conductor is not more than a wire diameter of each of the plural strands of the insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Atsuro YAGUCHI, Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Kotaro Tanaka, Kimika Kudo
  • Patent number: 11539690
    Abstract: An application server of an authentication system includes a requesting part that makes a request for possession authentication which is authentication using an authenticator, when the requesting part receives a request for authentication of a user from a terminal, a verifying part that receives an authentication result of the possession authentication and information for verification from the authentication server, and verifies the validity of the authentication server on the basis of the received information for verification, and a providing part that provides a function related to the application to the terminal if the verifying part verifies that the authentication server is valid. The authentication server of the authentication system includes a possession authentication part and a result transmission part that transmits the authentication result of the possession authentication and the information for verification to the application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Capy Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakagawa, Takanobu Watanabe, Mitsuo Okada
  • Patent number: 11521765
    Abstract: A tube equipped electric wire, which is configured to be used in a catheter equipped with a catheter tube and be installed within the catheter tube, is composed of a tube including an outer surface, and one or more electric wires helically wound around the outer surface of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Takanori Komuro
  • Patent number: 11437692
    Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an electrical insulating member covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the electrical insulating member, and a sheath covering a periphery of the shield layer. The shield layer is configured to include a lateral winding shielding portion with a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the electrical insulating member, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes an outer peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are covered with the batch plating portion, and an inner peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are not covered with the batch plating portion. The outer peripheral portion of the shield layer includes intermetallic compounds between the metal wires and the batch plating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Hideki Nonen, Masashi Arai, Hiromitsu Kuroda, Ryohei Okada, Tamotsu Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20220246326
    Abstract: A shielded cable includes at least one electric wire or cable, a shield being provided around the at least one electric wire or cable and including a plurality of wires comprising a metal material, an insulating coating being provided around the shield in direct- and plane-contact with the plurality of wires. The insulating coating includes a base resin composed of acid-modified fluoropolymer, and a heat-dissipating filler included in the base resin. The heat-dissipating filler is electrically insulating and has at least one functional group of NH2 group and OH group on its surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuro YAGUCHI, Takanobu WATANABE, Takanori KOMURO, Kimika KUDO, Koki HIRANO, Detian HUANG
  • Patent number: 11401439
    Abstract: A coating film is provided in a cable, a medical hollow tube, a molded article and a hollow tube. The coating film is formed from a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. A static friction coefficient on a surface of the coating film is 0.5 or less. When the coating film is subjected to a testing such that a long fiber non-woven fabric including cotton linters including an alcohol for disinfection with a length of 50 mm along a wiping direction is brought contiguous to the surface of the coating film at a shearing stress of 2×10?3 MPa to 4×10?3 MPa, followed by wiping off the surface of the coating film at a speed of 80 times/min to 120 times/min and 20,000 repetitions thereof for a wiping direction length of 150 mm, a difference (an absolute value of a difference) between the static friction coefficients of the coating film before and after the testing is not greater than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Naoto Teraki, Takanobu Watanabe, Yuriko Kiyokane
  • Publication number: 20220157494
    Abstract: A composite cable includes a signal transmission cable including a pair of signal lines being arranged parallel to each other in a cable longitudinal direction and contacting to each other and a shield layer covering the pair of signal lines together, a pair of power supply lines being arranged contacting to each other and contacting to the shield layer, a collective braided shield covering around a cable core composed of the signal transmission cable and the pair of power supply lines collectively, a sheath covering around the collective braided shield. The collective braided shield is configured closely contacting to the shield layer in accordance with an outer shape of the shield layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Detian HUANG, Takanobu WATANABE, Takanori KOMURO